rev:text
| - Let me very clear... We didn't pay for our meals here and if we had, I would have been displeased.
I know that hotel restaurants and bars are somewhat expensive because you're paying for convenience and the hotel accoutrements, but dang! $72 for a breakfast for three people that didn't include alcohol is a bit much. Here's what we had:
* SPICED PUMPKIN PANCAKES - fresh bananas, toasted pecans, cinnamon butter; * FRENCH TOAST * Granello's white chocolate & raspberry brioche, toasted hazelnuts; * DELANO BREAKFAST *** two farm eggs, choice of maple pepper bacon, country-style pork sausage,house-made chicken-apple sausage, Portuguese sausage or country bone-in ham steak, Granello's country toast, choice of caramelized onion hash or roasted heirloom potatoes, cup of fruit, sliced tomato.
My daughter Muff had the French toast and maple pepper bacon. It was okay. My sister Luch had the Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes, coffee and maple pepper bacon. It was okay. I had the Delano Breakfast with two farm eggs (cheddar cheese added), maple pepper bacon, Granello's country toast, caramelized onion hash and coffee. It was okay. That was my issue with our entire meal... Everything was just okay.
Breakfast is one of the cheapest meals to prepare. Eggs, bacon, flour, nuts, butter, spices, potatoes, onions, cheese, bread and coffee. I think that covers it. Total supply cost = $6. In the right hands, those same ingredients can be superlative, exquisite even. Not here...everything was just okay. Aldi's (The lower cost food chain) has a better pepper bacon. I bit into the caramelized onion hash and didn't taste any onions. That prompted me to dig through the entire pile of hash browns and there were no onions to be had. Okey dokey! (When I mentioned it our server, she said that the onions were very fine and throughout the potatoes. I think that I just got the wrong order and asked for some caramelized onions.) The homemade jam served with my breakfast was so good that you could have spread it on dirty show leather.
Again, nothing glaringly wrong with the breakfast, but for $72 of lower cost food items, you expect more.
|